🛠 Tools

An ever evolving list of great tools, frameworks, and other resources.

🧮 Frameworks:

Building company Strategy - the three part series on leadership team ways of working, the two types of Strategy, and the Strategy Planning process. Bonus points for going through the 1-Pager write up tips.

Strategy & Biz Ops Function evolution - example framework - as developed in SBO’s “Evolution of the Engine”

Measuring vague concepts - technique to find “what to measure” and “how”

The SBO 3 Documents - the three documents that encapsulate the operating model of a BizOps function

BizOps skills framework - talent development across 6 levels (Analyst through to COO), encompassing 5 core areas: scope and authority, Strategy, Problem Solving, Systems thinking and Leadership

Problem Definition - Framework with questions to help identify the right Problem to solve (inspired by the CIA Problem Definition list)

🧠 Books:

“Good Strategy, Bad Strategy” - Richard P. Rumelt

“Build” - Tony Fadell

“Scaling up Excellence” - Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao

“Demand-side Sales” - Bob Moesta

“Playing to Win”, and anything really - by Roger Martin

🌍 Global Start up Experts:

How to Start a Start up - Sam Altman’s Stanford class recordings

Mochary Method coaching - Matt Mochary’s coaching approach